Sunday, August 14, 2011

WWE is doing something different with the WWE ’12 video game as fans will be able to vote on which special edition cover gets released. “The People’s Edition” features The Rock on the cover and “The Champ’s Edition” features John Cena on the cover. The special release that’s picked will also have exclusive content with it. Voting is now going on online.

Randy Orton, who is on the cover of WWE ’12, appeared at the roster reveal today to talk to the fans. Orton talked about Michael McGillicutty’s name being announced. Orton talked about how he had the privilege to work with the late Curt Hennig and said it’s a travesty that McGillicutty can’t go by his real name of Joe Hennig.

Many celebrities are expected to be in attendance for Sunday’s SummerSlam pay-per-view from Los Angeles. David Arquette, who was at the launch party this week, said he would be there. Also, Jim Ross noted on Twitter that he secured some tickets for Deadwood actor W. Earl Brown.

Todd Grisham, Jerry Lawler and The Miz were at SummerSlam Axxess this afternoon with representatives from THQ for the WWE ’12 roster reveal. Here’s what was announced. Downloadable content will be announced later.

A lot of the WWE talents went home before going to Los Angeles after Monday and Tuesday’s TV tapings, with some not arriving in town for SummerSlam until late last night and this morning. This was done reportedly because WWE was concerned about incidents happening with talents in Los Angeles where paparazzi like TMZ are everywhere.

“WrestleMania: The World Premiere” will air tonight on NBC at 9pm EST with the exception of several major markets where NFL pre-season games are pre-empting it. Tonight’s special will feature sit-down interviews with some of the WrestleMania 27 stars and highlights from John Cena vs. The Miz with The Rock, Triple H vs. The Undertaker and the six-person match with Snooki, Trish Stratus & John Morrison vs. Layla, Michelle McCool & Dolph Ziggler.

WWE has announced the following music for tonight’s special:

* Diamond Eyes by Shinedown* For Whom The Bell Tolls by Metallica* E.T. by Katy Perry* Written In The Stars by Tinie Tempah* Welcome All Again by Collective Soul

Also courtesy of WWEDVDNews, here is the cover photo for the “WWE Greatest Rivalries: Shawn Michaels vs. Bret Hart” set that comes out on October 25th:

“For more than a decade, Bret “Hit Man” Hart and Shawn Michaels engaged in perhaps the most storied rivalry in the history of sports entertainment, from their teams (the Hart Foundation and the Rockers), through battles for the Intercontinental Championship and the richest prize in the business, the WWE Championship.

Their enmity spilled out of the ring, and led to the most infamous incident in the history of professional wrestling, The Montreal Screwjob. More than a decade later, the two men buried the hatchet as both are now WWE Hall of Famers.”

Below is the DVD cover for WWE’s “The Ladder Match 2: Crash & Burn” which comes out on DVD and Blu-ray on October 11th:

“It’s the veritable definition of “high risk, high reward” in sports entertainment—a rich reward hangs high above the ring and a superstar must climb a ladder to win the match and retrieve the prize. But the falls from the ladders can be devastating, and the punishment one can inflict when using the cold steel ladders as weapons can be brutal. The first Ladder Match DVD in 2007 was one of the biggest-selling DVDs in WWE History, and now the Ladder Match is back with an all-new collection of memorable bouts from WWE, WCW, ECW, and more in The Ladder Match 2: Crash & Burn.”

Hunico made his WWE TV debut on last night’s SmackDown as the Sin Cara character. The announcers acknowledged that Sin Cara had put on more weight and more muscle but did not say anything else that would leave you to believe that it was someone else under the mask. As noted before, if WWE keeps Mistico around the plan is to have a Mistico vs. Hunico feud where Mistico returns and reveals Hunico to be the fake Cara.